Naples to Pompeii?

[B&C-Cruisers]

We would like to visit Pompeii for about four hours, what transportation can we take on our own from Naples to Pompeii and back? and any idea of costs?

[euro cruiser]

A quick search of these boards will turn up a half dozen or more recent threads that offer great detail on exactly how to do this, including costs, directions and even pictures.

 

Here are a couple to get you started: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1074641&highlight=pompei

 

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1053849&highlight=pompei

[hkto]

We walked to Porta Nolana train station (15-20 min from ship docking location). Otherwise take cab to train station (10.50). One way train ticket to Pompei Scavi is 2.40 (40 min ride). Pompeii admission is 11, audio guide is 5, guided tour - 10.

 

Also there is bus if you manage to find SITA bus station near the port http://www.sitabus.it/sitabus/campania/orarioCAMPANIA/Quadro-VIIIbis-RITORNO.pdf

 

All prices are in Euros

[eandj]

Easy by train.

[golfnutt234]

We were in Naples in mid September. This is what we did.

 

If you walk directly out of the port, across the main drag is a news stand. We found out you can buy a combo bus/train ticket to Pompeii right there. Go back across the street and hop on the bus that takes you to the Circumvesuviana (sp?) train station. Take the train to Sorrento for about 40 minutes or so and get off at the Pompei Scavi station. Off the train and turn right. Walk about a block and you're there!

 

Then you can either reverse direction and head back or, what we did, back on the train and head into Sorrento. It took another half hour or so. You can wander through the shops and restaurants and make your way down to the harbor. You can walk....Lots of steps down, BTW, or they have local busses and "train-looking" shuttle that run from downtown to the harbor. We had pizza and beer down by the water as we were waiting to catch the hyrofoil back to Naples. Takes about 45 minutes by boat back to the port. You'll be within walking distance to your ship.

 

Great day!!!

[CoralReef]

Here's how we did it in May: exit the port, turn right, walk along by the water until you get to Corso Garibaldi (a major street, just past an old church). Turn left on Garibaldi, go a couple blocks, and you’ll see the Circumvesuviana station on the right. It’s easily identifiable by the buses and taxis outside. You can also take the train to Pompeii from the main station, Napoli Centrale, two blocks further on, but I don’t recommend it. We got off at the main station when we came back, in order to see more of the city, and it’s much bigger and more confusing than the Circumvesuviana station. It was easy to buy our tickets and find our train at Circumvesuviana, and we were already seated when the hordes started pouring on at the main station. The tickets were 2.40 € per person; be sure to validate them.

 

The train ride to Pompeii Scavi took about 25 minutes. At Pompeii, we paid 11 € each for admission. There is an excellent map and guidebook available for free at the Tourist Information booth next to the ticket counter, but you have to ask for it. We decided to join a guided tour for 10 € per person, group size of 10. There were plenty of licensed guides and all were offering the same deal. It only took a few minutes for our guide, Mario, to collect the rest of the group. He led us on a 2-hour tour around Pompeii.

After the tour, we took the train back, getting off at Centrale (Piazza Garibaldi) this time, because we wanted to see more of Naples. If we were going straight to the ship, we could have stayed on for one more stop, to Circumvesuviana station.